In this interview full of deep learning resources, Google DeepMind research scientist Sander Dieleman tells us about his PhD spent developing techniques for learning feature hierarchies for musical audio signals, how writing about his Kaggle competition solutions was integral to landing a career in deep learning, and the advancements in reinforcement learning he finds most exciting.

Everyone has heard of Kaggle, but have you heard of London-based Google DeepMind? Their researchers build deep learning algorithms to conquer everything from Pong and the ancient game of go to blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy. If the latter sounds particularly familiar, you may be recalling the Diabetic Retinopathy Detection competition which ran on Kaggle from February 2015 to July 2015. In this blog post, I interview Jeffrey De Fauw who came in 5th place in this competition using convolutional ...